Chapter 529 Long construction period? You haven't seen what speed really means!

"How is the machine factory doing?" Jin Xin asked.

"This acquisition has no real value; it's like a chicken rib—tasteless to eat but a pity to throw away. To keep up with the progress of the highway equipment company, this factory needs to invest a lot of money to upgrade its equipment."

Jin Xin remained silent after hearing this. If Xing Baohua hadn't proposed acquiring the machinery factory, the General Administration wouldn't have repaid this favor. At their level, it wasn't about money anymore.

Human relationships and social skills are often summed up in a single sentence. Doing this well will bring even greater benefits in the future, just like the Pengfei project, the first joint-stock aircraft manufacturing company in the country—who could have imagined this a few years ago?

Not to mention, Xing Baohua now has an even bigger project, with China Merchants Group playing a key role in it.

Whether it's local or state-owned enterprises, China Merchants Group's institutional nature has been perfectly utilized.

This is an enormous favor. There are several wealthy organizations in China that really think there aren't any large state-owned enterprises involved in foreign trade. China Merchants Group is just one of them.

Besides, the machinery factory is indeed a bit of a waste of money, but it costs little, and that amount is insignificant to China Merchants Group.

"Complete the acquisition as soon as possible. Don't focus on this. Don't fuss over the details. Let them calculate the total price, and we'll pay it," Jin Xin said as he sat down.

"You make it sound so easy, but the key is that there's a lot of debt. Are you going to take on all the debt?" Liu Yan said with a light laugh, her words carrying a hint of sarcasm.

IBM couldn't assign architects to collaborate, since the final product would belong to both companies anyway, which was stipulated in the contract.

"Your own 8-inch fab took 8 years to build, and each year's upgrades take 2 years. The construction of the Windmill Country took even longer, 12 years."

He said very little, but the key point is that with an initial investment of 17 billion US dollars, the output value will exceed one trillion within the next seven years.

If you stay at a city hotel year-round, the soup base may not be available, but it will appear at the breakfast menu.

The light is slow to finish, and the quality must be top-notch.

As he spoke, Levi took out a solid-state memory card that he had co-produced with the Eight Stars.

Your usually steady and reliable nature makes you indecisive. After some deliberation, you decided to take some time tomorrow to talk to me again.

But the system is different, so you have to take on some responsibility.

There's a connection behind the notification, so we mainly want to proceed cautiously. Levi's project is still in the planning stages and needs to be prepared.

IBM's offer to put the lab in our company is a bad excuse, a waste of resources and time. Besides, my architects have a lot of work to do, and once they go to America, they won't be able to complete most of it.

Before Chang Qing left, Liu Yan changed out of her pajamas, picked up her phone, and thought about Jin Xin's actions. She realized that he was being incredibly conservative.

As they chatted, Levi learned that the other person disliked sports, and surprisingly started talking about the European League and even the English League.

The main building was supposed to be completed in one or two years, with the remaining steps being equipment installation and debugging.

Even if there are no projects at the moment, if something comes up, it's not just a matter of wasting some time and losing some money.

As long as I say I'm taking him to do some activities, not to make money, I've heard that very few people want to get off my bus. They're more likely to find out how to buy tickets.

After Liu Yan finished speaking, Chang Qing chuckled again.

"The supplier owes the seller money? Where did things go wrong?" Liu Yan asked curiously.

"You're moving too slowly! Delaying to ambush me! Alright, that's all I have to say, hurry up and go, I need to rest."

Levi was a CEO, on par with the chairman of IBM, while Xing Baohua was merely a superior, whether at the management or technical level, and his status was not significantly different from Chang Qingshu's.

"That……"

During that period, the "China speed" was evident, but a small portion of the work was done intermittently, with projects starting when there was no money and stopping when there was.

The establishment of a tiny factory in Shanghai is less significant than the construction of any landmark building.

Few institutions have studied my success, and unfortunately, some things are not replicable.

“You said you missed him, and he believed you.”

On the seventh day, Levi had breakfast with Xing Baohua, but Liu Yan was not with them yet.

Actually, it wasn't that they didn't have shredded pork noodles, but it was the other person's first time eating it anyway. Plus, the hotel's decor was exquisite, so even the most unusual dishes would seem special.

"Aren't you that thirsty?" Chang Qingshu scratched his head, wondering if it was appropriate to talk about that kind of topic so early in the morning.

The fact that Levi treated me as an equal shows that he both looked down on me and admired me.

Xing Baohua talked a lot, and I listened attentively. My superior also took notes on the meeting.

It's very light, with a hint of meat flavor. I took another sip of the noodle soup with the big spoon, and then held up my pinky to say, "That's enough, okay!"

Although Chang Qingshu doesn't have a huge entertainment empire, these celebrities are really too vague.

After breakfast, we'll go to the reception room for some coffee and have a serious chat about the gossip surrounding becoming the top four.

"The wafer fab requires an investment of 12 billion. They want to take a small share and contribute a small amount of money. The investment is sufficient and cannot be replaced by equipment."

"The method of making shredded pork noodles is very simple and meticulous. In particular, families simply stir-fry shredded pork with scallions in oil and then make soup with water. But the kind you are eating now uses a kind of broth called 'low stock' as the soup base. That low stock is simple to make, but it needs to be simmered for 4-8 hours."

"That's bad! He has no say in debts like that, so he dumps them on outside the city. And outside the city, they refuse to come to Levi. Anyway, I made the product. If there are quality problems, it means my design is flawless. Who else can they come to?"

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